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Intermediate Schools
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Unless there is such a training as will lead to a recognition and an
abhorrence of sin, moral deformity will result. Our children should
be removed from the evil influences of the public school and placed
where thoroughly converted teachers may educate them in the Holy
Scriptures. Thus students will be taught to make the word of God
the grand rule of their lives.
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Some may ask, “How are such schools to be established?” We
are not a rich people, but if we pray in faith, and let the Lord work in
our behalf, He will open ways before us to establish small schools
in retired places for the education of our youth, not only in the
Scriptures and in book learnings, but in many lines of manual labor.
The necessity of establishing such schools is urged upon me very
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strongly because of the cruel neglect of many parents properly to
educate their children in the home. Many fathers and mothers have
seemed to think that if the lines of control were put into the hands of
their children they would develop into useful young men and women.
But the Lord has instructed me in regard to this matter. In the visions
of the night I saw standing by the side of these neglected children the
one who was cast out of the heavenly courts because he originated
sin. He, the enemy of souls, was watching for opportunities to
gain control of the mind of every child whose parents had not given
faithful instruction in regard to Satan’s snares.
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In planning for the education of their children outside the home,
parents should realize that it is no longer safe to send them to the
public school, and should endeavor to send them to schools where
they will obtain an education based on a Scriptural foundation. Upon
every Christian parent there rests the solemn obligation of giving to
his children an education that will lead them to gain a knowledge
of the Lord and to become partakers of the divine nature through
obedience to God’s will and way.